Student accused of serving pot-laced brownies on field trip

SAUGERTIES — A 17-year-old Saugerties High School student is accused of handing out marijuana-laced brownies to to fellow students on a field trip to Masschusetts.

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By Pauline Liu

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By Pauline Liu

Posted Oct. 23, 2013 at 2:00 AM

By Pauline Liu
Posted Oct. 23, 2013 at 2:00 AM

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SAUGERTIES — A 17-year-old Saugerties High School student is accused of handing out marijuana-laced brownies to to fellow students on a field trip to Masschusetts.

The student, whose name is being withheld, faces felony charges of distributing marijuana in Salem.

He and other students were on a field trip last Friday to the Salem Witch House, Salem police said Tuesday.

The boy, who will be charged as a juvenile, confessed to baking the brownies himself. "He said he baked them at home in New York, brought them on the bus and after they got off the bus they ate them here," according to Salem Lt. Conrad Prosniewski.

Police got a call at 6:26 p.m. that five students, ages 16 and 17, were throwing up and needed to be taken to the hospital. The brownie-baker was among the five students hospitalized, police said.

"The bus went back to New York without them, so their parents had to come here to get them and, if you can imagine, it must have been an ugly ride home," Prosniewski said.

The boy who baked the brownies will be receiving a summons in the mail within the next few weeks, ordering him to appear for his arraignment at First District Court of Essex County's Juvenile Court, police said.

The crime is punishable by up to two-and-a-half years in state prison, Prosniewski said. He explained that it's not clear if there were any other ingredients in the brownies to make the students throw up so violently, since it appears that all or most of the brownies were consumed.

"Marijuana is not easily digestible and it depends on the concentration, because if there's a lot of it, people can get really sick," Prosniewski said. He hoped the incident was a learning experience for the students.